Re: ok then stupid question about IBSS mode

On Monday,  6 May 2002 at  9:40:24 -0700, Jim Binkley wrote:
>
> Aka ad hoc  ...
>
> So we have an IBSS master and IBSS slaves.
>
> To setup a master then
>
> wicontrol -p 1
> wicontrol -c 1
> wicontrol -n "irulethelink"
>
> so non-masters are what then:  ?!

This is the result of the misleading terminology.  On Lucent cards,
you need the following for an IBSS:

 wicontrol -p 1
 wicontrol -n "IBSS"

In addition, *at least one* station (card) must do

 wicontrol -c 1

With the Lucent firmware, this creates a BSSID with the MAC address of
that station, with bit 6 of the first octet set.  For example:

  Current BSSID:                          [ 02:02:2d:28:de:bf ]
  MAC address:                            [ 00:02:2d:28:de:bf ]

This is the only contribution of this station.  Once it has done this,
it can go away and the other stations can still communicate between
each other. 

Greg
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